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Fig. 2 - Global Energy
Storage annual
capacity and
Cumulative capacity

Fig 3 - Energy Storage
system used for
primary regulation
2.5MW-3.2MWh in
Prottes
( Wien - Austria )

There is a general consensus that electrification of The rapid integration of large Renewable capacity
large parts of the economy is essential to reach with their inherent variability creates large challenges
long-term climate goals: Electricity becomes the for the power system, including potential imbalances
core of the energy system and Energy Storage the in supply and demand, changes in transmission flow
key technology because of flexibility. Flexibility- patterns, and the potential for greater system
according to USEF, 2018, p. 4f - is the ability to instability as the built-in inertia provided by fossil
purposely deviate from a planned / normal generation generation is removed. All of these call for new
or consumption pattern. This ability can be deployed solutions to create flexibility in electricity supply and
either directly, by an external signal, or indirectly as a demand over different durations. Batteries provide
response to a financial incentive such as energy the ability to adjust supply and demand to balance
prices and tariffs. the system. They also provide a wide range of

• to increase the electrical energy to
be produced because of the rising of
electric consumption (i.e. electric vehicles
and residential heating),
• to transform the power system from f
ossil-powered generation to
renewables,
• to meet the economic sustainability of
the energy transition.

Tab. 1

IndustrIal Plants - May 2022
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